Minimum analytical quality specifications of inter-laboratory comparisons: Agreement among Spanish EQAP organizers

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 455-461

  Rics, Carmen ^a   Ramn, Francisco ^a   Salas, Angel ^a   Buo, Antonio ^b   Calafell, Rafael ^c   Morancho, Jorge ^c   Gutirrez Bassini, Gabriella ^d   Jou, Josep M ^d  

^a Quality Committee   (Spain)

^b Spanish Association of Medical Biopathology ^*  (Spain)

^c Programa de Supervisión Externa de la Calidad y Comisión de Garantía de Calidad del Laboratorio Clínico   (Spain)

^d Spanish Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

external quality assessment program; quality management; quality specification

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM; GERMANY; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPAIN; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC; SPAIN;

EID: 84860447264     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm.2011.787     Document Type: Article

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